Saturday, only 12,500?? pretty low number, nice enough day...
Is YCW not a big thing now? I thought it was a big weekend.
Might be suffering the "Nobody goes any more because it's too crowded" syndrome. There were a ton of warnings of how crowded and how unruly the young crowd is......might be keeping a lot of the "locals" from attending that weekend.
I'm actually surprised the numbers are that low as well. I pretty much won't go YCW myself, even though I'd like to see some of the acts, because I don't like dealing with the crowds. It was a mixed bag when I worked there- there were some great people, but also a lot of pain in the necks, and it seemed most of the park employees felt about the same- the bad outweighing the good.
But I doubt that you'll see them change up. The acts this year weren't as big a name as ones they've had the past few years, and I know several of the regular contributors weren't there (e.g. Kanakuk camps/ Joe White) which might have had an impact, as well as the weather forecasts for Saturday in particular not sounding good until Saturday itself- I'm guessing that many that would have gone made other plans instead.
Now if they run into that 3-4 years in a row without any good explanation other than public perception of the crowd, then they might start to rethink it a little bit. But I doubt after one year that was off a bit.